[Koha] Large installation in Turkey

[Gaetan Boisson]

Thanks a lot for the details.

I am pretty sure a lot of people will be interested in your talk at the 
next Kohacon!

All the best for your move to 3.20, that sounds like a great project too!

Le 13/10/2015 08:56, Mengu Yazicioglu a écrit :
> That will be better Bob and I'd like to give some more information on 
> that project.
>
> Project went live on 2014 April. All public libraries were using 
> another LIS before and it was distributed.
> With that project, all libraries started to use a central Koha system 
> located on Ankara, capital of Turkey.
>
> It was a derived version of Koha 2.x (co called TG distribution) but 
> we implemented many new modules on it.
> Therefore we can say a quite derived version of Koha 2.x.  Because of 
> distributed system data were very dirty,
> there were hundreds of biblios of a single book. Hence we wrote two 
> modules to handle them and we merged more than
> 4.000.000 biblios with the better one, automatically. There is a 
> Catalog Center for public libraries now, and they also merge dirty 
> biblios
> with the better one. They also create original biblios. This will 
> yield the biggest Turkish catalog center.
>
> For the moment, we try to migrate to newest version 3.20.x and tests 
> started on that. I think it will go live in 2-3 months.
> We will also implement all modules to the new version that we 
> originally developed (There are many, some are related with
> local solutions).
>
> Maybe, it will be nice to talk about infrastructure.
> There is one Load balancer, 4 web servers, 4 clustered databases 
> (MariaDB), 1 specific server for ID cards, barcodes, labels.
> We do not only implement and serve to Koha project, we also manage 
> those servers' databases, web servers, performance issues, etc.
>
> I'd like to share some interested statistics, too.
>
> More than 6.000.000 books circulated in 18 months, there is a record 
> of more than 30.000 circulation for a single day.
> In average, 2.000 borrowers are being added to system each day but we 
> saw app. 4.500 new borrowers last Saturday.
>
> Koha is everywhere in Turkey with that project, even in some small 
> villages. Ministry of Culture has some trucks with books and
> they travel around the Turkey and circulate books.
>
> If you have any other question I will be happy to share.
> I'm planning to join next Koha Conf, and if I would have a chance I 
> want to share this project with all of you.
>
> Thanks.
> Mengü
>
>
>
>
> On 13-10-2015 01:36, Bob Birchall wrote:
>> Changing the name of this interesting thread, so it can be found in 
>> the archives. :)
>> Bob
>>
>>
>> On 13/10/15 01:13, Mengu Yazicioglu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> It's in only one Koha installation for all public libraries, and 
>>> we've done many implementations for
>>> them, and hopefully we do not face with any problems. There are some 
>>> small issues but we can handle
>>> them.
>>>
>>> koha.ekutuphane.gov.tr is public OPAC, but in Turkish unfortunately,
>>>
>>> you may search some specific letter for example "a" for Tum 
>>> Kutuphaneler and you'll see the speed.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Mengu
>>>
>>> On 12-10-2015 13:10, Gaetan Boisson wrote:
>>>> Oh wow... Those are really impressive figures!
>>>> Is it just one huge Koha install, or does every single library has 
>>>> its own Koha?
>>>> If it is just one Koha, i guess you had to make specific patches? 
>>>> (I imagine having hundreds of libraries defined in the branches 
>>>> could be a problem at some places in the interface...)
>>>>
>>>> It's great to see Koha being put to such use anyway! Is there a 
>>>> public opac we can see?
>>>>
>>>> Best regards,
>>>>
>>>> Le 11/10/2015 21:15, Mengu Yazicioglu a écrit :
>>>>> I'd like to share that we serve more than 13.200.000 records 
>>>>> (adding more than 20.000 items
>>>>> per day) to 1.126 public libraries consoritum with 1.000.000 users 
>>>>> (adding more than 2.000 new users everyday),
>>>>>
>>>>> I think it is biggest Koha installation around the world,
>>>>> We use Mariadb on clustered servers and we are very comfortable 
>>>>> with the performance.
>>>>> Of course, our technical staff trace the servers and databased 
>>>>> everyday.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
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